The Fascist Control Over Public Images

Mon Nov. 14, 2011 3:30- 5:00pm Cohen Lounge, Dickson Hall

In Fascist Italy, photography became a basic instrument for building
political consensus. Photo agencies, developing and diffusing
apparently neutral images, implemented a rigid control of the
“official” face of Italy through the evocation of the past and the
idea of a very stable and codified social life. However, the
avant-gardes movements (Soviet Constructivism, the Bauhaus) had
opened up international spaces of research within the visual arts
that continued to have an impact during the Fascist period and after
WWII.